My bathtub has an overflow drain that's set rather low for my liking. The hole is a good 4 to 5 inches away from the top of the tub, so I can fill it faster than it drains, but as soon as I stop it drops down within a couple of minutes. From the bottom of the tub to the drain is only like 8 or 10 inches, so parts of me stick up above the water; if I submerge my legs it raises the level so that it drains again, and then when I pull my legs back up it's another half inch or so lower.
What's a cheap, quick, either semi-permanent or easily redone for each bath, way to stop up the little hole? It's only about 3/4 inch long and half an inch wide. I can think of all sorts of ways to do it, shoving in some material that can expand for instance, and is waterproof and won't just get pushed down into the drain, but I can't think what to use. Or epoxying a small piece of material over the hole but I have never gotten any sort of glue or epoxy to actually harden, other than Elmer's, and only when it was on my hands to make a second skin to peel off.
I just also thought of soldering something over the hole, but I don't know if that would hold to the type of metal and/or paint/chrome.
What's a cheap, quick, either semi-permanent or easily redone for each bath, way to stop up the little hole? It's only about 3/4 inch long and half an inch wide. I can think of all sorts of ways to do it, shoving in some material that can expand for instance, and is waterproof and won't just get pushed down into the drain, but I can't think what to use. Or epoxying a small piece of material over the hole but I have never gotten any sort of glue or epoxy to actually harden, other than Elmer's, and only when it was on my hands to make a second skin to peel off.
I just also thought of soldering something over the hole, but I don't know if that would hold to the type of metal and/or paint/chrome.
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